Glissando length

2007-07-06 Thread colin kirkham
Hi, I am still striving to get the best possible appearance of glissandi when the target or source not is hidden. Using tips from this group and the snippets library I can almost get the appearance I am hoping for, but often the length of the glissando line is too short to be useful. Is there

Re: Glissando length

2006-06-01 Thread Benedict Singer
Thanks for your suggestions! I'd rather avoid doing manual line-breaks, as lilypond does the line-breaking well in general. At the scales that this is an issue, decreasing the gap wouldn't help either. Somebody else pointed me towards \once \override Score.SeparationItem #'padding = #1, and thi

Re: Glissando length

2006-06-01 Thread stmaxx
Hi Ben I would like to suggest three (more or less sophisticated) solutions for your problem: - you could insert additional line breaks to increase the distance between notes - decrease the gap between note and glissando: \once \override Glissando#'gap = #0.1 (standard value is 0.5) -

Glissando length

2006-05-31 Thread Benedict Singer
Hi all, I'm doing a piece with extensive glissando usage, and there's a bit of an issue. Lilypond is setting most of the piece with the measures very nicely spaced on each line; however, when there's glissandi in there, it's still spacing it the same way, and so, for example, a measure of 4 q